The first site he visits is the old Framlingham mission cemetery, just outside of Warrnambool, with Vicki Couzens of the Gunditjmara and Kirrae Wurrung peoples of south-west Victoria.

"It's one of my favourite places to come, lots of family there in the cemetery and I can come and talk with them or just sit quietly and feel that connection, and being at home," Vicki says.

"It's a pretty powerful and special place and I think somewhere beautiful to rest your bones."

In recent times a special ceremony took place there, to mark to the reburial of ancestors.

"In another part of the cemetery we have over 200 ancestral remains that were returned in 2003. We had a really amazing and beautiful ceremony for their homecoming.

"Some of the elders and community representatives, some in their possum skin cloaks, carried the remains that were lowered into twelve burial pits, and we had a smoking and a ceremony for that, and it was very powerful, you know you could feel them spirits and the old people surround all of us."

Listen to the audio to hear more about Vicki's connection to country and to hear Daniel delve into deep listening with Lou Bennett a Yorta Yorta and Dja Dja Wurrung songwoman from Echuca, and Doris Paton, a descendant and history specialist of the Gunnai people of Gippsland and Monaro/ Ngarigo people of New South Wales.

The extinct volcano known as Mount Elephant, just outside Derrinallum. This was a gathering place for Aboriginal clans of south-west Victoria and a site of ceremony. It's not hard to see why.
(Awaye - Radio National )